To teach college students proper mountaineering knowledge, the Ministry of Education held the 108th National College Student Mountain Safety Training Workshop today through the 5th in the 20-kilometer area around the Shengguang Police Station on the Yilan Branch of the Central Cross-Island Highway, as well as the mountainous regions near the Old Nanhu and Old Kalayeh Mountain Entrances. A total of 103 people participated.
Summer is the peak season for college students to go mountaineering, but it is also a period of frequent typhoons and heavy rains. Taiwan’s mountainous terrain is highly variable, and mountaineering environments are greatly affected by weather conditions. Therefore, the Ministry of Education invites instructors, students, and student support personnel from university mountaineering clubs across the country to participate in the mountain safety training workshop every year to enhance students’ safety knowledge and reduce the likelihood of mountain accidents.
The Ministry of Education stated that the training course is divided into two parts: special lectures and skill training. The content includes handling and seeking refuge during typhoons, self-management when lost, nighttime travel, emergency landing drills, comprehensive navigation application, establishing wilderness campsites, and recognizing and handling altitude sickness and emergency response essentials.
To better reflect actual mountaineering scenarios, participants were grouped according to simulated real climbing team compositions. Based on self-assessed abilities, students with similar skills were placed in the same group to facilitate training by the coaching team and allow participants of varying abilities to learn skills at different levels.
Additionally, this event mixed professional personnel such as instructors and teachers with students in groups. Besides playing the role of “mother hens leading chicks” to pass on mountain safety knowledge and experience, it also facilitated exchanges on how different schools administratively support and assist students in completing mountain safety training, achieving the goal of mutual learning between teaching and learning.
Cao Cuiying, Deputy Director of the Department of Student Affairs and Special Education at the Ministry of Education, personally attended and presided over the opening ceremony today. She expressed strong affirmation and encouragement for the active participation of attendees in learning how to prevent mountain accidents and improve response capabilities. She also hopes that students will pass on the wilderness survival and sheltering skills they have learned through experience sharing and hands-on practice with fellow club members at their schools, thereby enhancing student mountaineering safety knowledge, reducing accidents, and ensuring life safety.
(China Times)